, 1887-07-29
TOW TALK
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

The lceman smiles as he counts the gains,
Derived from the trade of hummer,
And as he walks the street disdalns
The greeting of the plumber.
But the plumber will pass the lceman by,
And be himself the hero,
When the storm cloud floats in the winter sky
And the mercury's down to zero.
Boston Courier.
The Omaha train reached Cheyenne in
two sections last evening.
The pupils of the First Baptist Sun
day school participated in a picnic at the
fair grounds yesterday.
An old lady named Walker, who died
from the effects of a paralytic stroke
Wednesday night, was buried yesterday
afternoon.
Neatly printed posters have been liber-
ally distributed about the city announcing
the second annual meeting of the Wyo-
ming Fair Association.
The small boy bathes in the lake at the
Wyoming Meat company's slaughter
house, to the great annoyance of the
guardian of the premises.
California excursionists from Kansas
City and vicinity occupied two ~sleepers
and a day coach attached to the train
from the South last evening.
Five ragged and dirty tramps faced
Judge Fisher yesterday. They will labor
for the city for their board and a small
consideration during the next ten days.
The city park is becoming a very popu-
lar resort. The benches are occupied
nearly all day, and promenaders and car
RACES invade the resort in the evening.
The new delivery wagon of the Warren
Mercantile company is the handsomest
rig of the character in the West. 1t is
as beautiful as a chariot and useful as a
horse.
The motion for a suspension of sem
tence in the Trumble case has been taken
under advisement by Judge Maglnnis
and will be ruled upon at the lex term
of court.
The street and alley committee have at
last turned their attention to the business
portion of the city. Cutters are being
cleaned and c%ulverts rebuilt on Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets.
The entertainment given by the Metho-
dist Episcopal lyceum last evening was
well attended, Notwithstanding the ex.
ceedingly warm weather. A pleasing
programme was rendered.
Corey Bros, Cheyenne & Burlington
contractors, have sixty teams and eighty
men excavating at a point forty miles
from Cheyenne. Their contract will be
completed Sept. /.
Constable Goddard leaves for Silver
Crown this morning to make arrests and
summon witnesses in the case wherein A.
simmons charges certain persons with
torcibly taking possession of his Irrigating
ditch.
More evidence was taken yesterday in
the case of the Wyoming Hereford Asso
clatlon vs.. the cheyenne q Burlington
railway. BRYAN, Sewers & Stewart are
the attorneys for the plaintiff, while Pot
ter q Van D~evanter represent the railroad
company.
Baker and Link, the Chug shootists,
were released from the county jail last
evening and left for Laramie. They
waived examination and were placed I'M
der 81, 500 bail each. The bondsmen are
A. Underwood, Max Meyer. Wilson and
Richardson.
Sheriff Sharpless has provided the
prisoners confined in the county jail with
cloth slippers. They are made more
comfortable in prison, and in case of a
delivery could not travel a great distance
50 poorly shod, so says the Official, who
views a matter rom all sides.